READING FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES

This course aims to:

Develop students’ awareness of the reading process to enable them to read in ways that are expected in college.
Develop students’ ability to comprehend a wide variety of reading materials especially texts related to their field of study.

Course Learning Outcomes

Successful students in this course can:

Define reading and the theories of reading
Read to extract relevant information for academic writing;
Analyse and evaluate arguments in reading texts;
Transfer information read from non-linear forms to linear forms and vice versa.
Interact with the reading text by connecting ideas through logical thinking.

COURSE OUTLINE:

COURSE OUTLINE Reading for Academic Purposes.doc

ASSIGNMENT:

Based on the text of The Landlady by Roald Dahl, complete your assignments as requested.

landlady_text.pdf

ASSGMENT # 1.docx

ASSGMENT # 2.docx